South Brunswick Arts Commission

Poetry Series

in Cooperation with South Brunswick Library
featuring

Tina Kelley & George Witte

Sunday, May 6, 2–4pm

Tina Kelley is on the staff of Covenant House, where she is cowriting
a book about homeless teenagers, Almost Home: Helping
Kids Move from Homelessness to Hope, to be published by Wiley
on October 1. Her first book of poems, The Gospel of Galore,
(Word Press, 2003) won a Washington State Book Award, and her
second book, Precise, will be published by Word Press in
December 2012. She was a reporter at The New York Times for ten
years, won a fraction of a Pulitzer Prize for being a part of the
Times’ coverage of the Sept. 11 attacks, and wrote 121 “Portraits of Grief,” short descriptions of the victims. She lives with herhusband and two children in Maplewood.

George Witte has published two books of poems, The Apparitioners (2005) and Deniability (2009), both available from Orchises Press. New poems from a third collection in progress have appeared recently in 32 Poems, Able Muse, Antioch Review, Measure, The Yale Review, and other journals. A native of Madison, New Jersey, he lives in Ridgewood. Continue reading →

Poetry Series

in Cooperation with South Brunswick Library

featuring

Priscilla Orr & Marcia Pelletiere

Sunday, April 15, 2–4pm

Priscilla Orr, author of Jugglers & Tides, and the forthcoming Losing the Horizon from Hannacroix Creek Books, is a recipient of fellowships from New Jersey State Council on

the Arts and Yaddo, is a Dodge poet and has twice been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She is an Associate Professor or English, and lives with her spirited Norwich terrier, Crosby, in Hamburg, NJ.

Marcia Pelletiere is a poet, musician, and multimedia artist. She has just released her first poetry collection, Miracle with Roasted Hens (Spit, Bite Press), which can be ordered from her website, www.marciapelletiere.com. She is a founding member of the a cappella group The Accidentals, and co-founder of Two Cahoots, a multimedia arts collaborative. Her CD Little Noises was featured in Billboard Magazine and includes Marcia’s poems set to music by more than 25 diverse musicians. Her poems have been published in journals including Ploughshares, Prairie Schooner, The Southern Poetry Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, and Painted Bride Quarterly. She has taught creative writing at several schools and arts organizations in New York City.

Followed by open readings by audience members

South Brunswick Library
110 Kingston Lane, Monmouth Junction
Free Admission • Food Pantry Donation Appreciated
For information, call 732.329.4000 x7635, arts@sbtnj.net

May 6 • Tina Kelly & George Witte